Princesa (1994) is the autobiography of Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque, a Brazilian trans woman (travesti) detained in Rome's Rebibbia prison.

[1] It was written with the help of the Italian director and journalist Maurizio Jannelli [it], a promoter of literary projects among the prisoners.

[2] The book discusses the violence which was inflicted on transvestite and transgender streetwalkers, both from the police and vigilantes (the latter including murders of her colleagues).

[1] The book was re-published by Club degli Editori [it] and Marco Tropea Editore [it] and subsequently translated into Portuguese, Spanish, German and Greek.

The novel also inspired the song of the same name by Fabrizio De André (Princesa) in his final album Anime salve (1996) written with Ivano Fossati.